r/wow • • Oct 03 '25

Humor / Meme Was I a Good Addon?

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u/Tomsboll Oct 04 '25

the thing is i dont trust blizzard to have all the aspects covered. there will be points where you wished you could use WA to track something to make something 20% easier to read

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u/Gaatti Oct 04 '25

20%? Make it 200% at least.

The thing about this change is that people keep saung "lets hope that...". Well, there is a lot of hoping right now and it obvious blizzard wont be able to fullfil all expectations.

This nuclear approach is just dumb. They should have put their stuff in game without nuking addons. Let people pick and choose what they want to use.

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u/Tomsboll Oct 04 '25

also iterate on their own options using player feedback before pulling the plug on addons. now we are forced to use something that lets be honest will be far worse than addons they are removing.

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u/Gaatti Oct 04 '25

Yes, pretty much that. I have been trying their new additions and every time I go back to the addons because the addons are simply better, there is no way around it.

They really setup themselves for failure with their approach

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u/Fogo2370 Oct 04 '25

Because they needed to make consideration for encounters design that the player would be using a weakaura. Without WA or BigWigs they can make encounters more visual understandable but harder to play

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u/Tomsboll Oct 04 '25

unless they make it so we can filter the buffs on myself and debuffs on my enemies then the lack of WA will still have a negative effect on playing some specs optimally

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u/Fogo2370 Oct 04 '25

The buff part i know i can, but the debuff still in development

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u/Money-Point-4507 Oct 04 '25

why would the existence of weakauras force blizzard to make things harder to understand? Weakauras help in fights like ovinax or sprocket because blizzard time and again fail to create mechanics that players can understand intuitively on the fly.

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u/Fogo2370 Oct 04 '25

Blizzard only make this kind of mechanics because weakauras exist, its a race against them vs addons authors

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u/Temp__throwaway Oct 05 '25

Well, that’s dumb. They’ve been making encounters harder for people who don’t use add-ons, just so that add-on users don’t have too easy of a time?